Talkdesk
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| Industry | Software as a service |
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| Founded | 2011 |
| Founder | Cristina Fonseca, Tiago Paiva |
| Headquarters | San Francisco, California |
| Website | www |
Talkdesk is a cloud-based contact center software provider. Its headquarters are in San Francisco, with offices in both Lisbon and Porto, Portugal.
In 2011, Talkdesk co-founders Cristina Fonseca and Tiago Paiva noticed the paradigm regarding call center software was not only sloppy but outdated. Fonseca and Paiva entered a contest hosted by Twilio and built the first version of Talkdesk using Twilio’s API in 10 days. They were selected to present at Twilio’s conference and after winning were invited to join 500 Startup’s third batch.
Cristina Fonseca and Tiago Paiva founded the company in 2011 and raised $450,000. Talkdesk demonstrated at TechCrunch Disrupt in New York in May, 2012. In August 2014, the company raised $3.15 million led by Storm Ventures.
In 2015, Talkdesk raised $21 million DFJ, Salesforce Ventures and Storm Ventures. That year, it was mentioned in some slides and articles.
On October 27, 2015, Talkdesk announced a program to provide technology startups with free licenses.
Talkdesk uses WebRTC technology and Twilio telephony. They use Backbone.js for the frontend and Ruby-related technologies (Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Sinatra, Sidekiq, etc.) for the backend. Talkdesk also takes advantage of some NoSQL solutions such as MongoDB, Redis for storage and caching solutions, as well as RabbitMQ for inter-application messaging and leverage internal hypermedia APIs.
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